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Redkey, IN

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Overview


Redkey is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,081 people and just one neighborhood, Redkey is the 312th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Redkey was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Redkey, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.77% of Redkey’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Redkey is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Redkey who work in office and administrative support (9.30%), food service (8.14%), and sales jobs (7.75%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Redkey is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Redkey is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Redkey is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.83% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Redkey in 2022 was $16,769, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,076 for a family of four. Redkey also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.83% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Redkey is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Redkey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Redkey residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Redkey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.96% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Redkey include German, Scottish, Irish, European, and English.

The most common language spoken in Redkey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Redkey, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 44 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Redkey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.1%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Redkey, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Scottish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (7.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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